Profs to get vetted?
Lecturers may need to be vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau if there is an increase, as a result of the Tomlinson Review into 14 to 19-year-old education, in the number of students aged under 18 entering university.
Jane Nelson, Chair of the Universities Admission Practitioners Group said: "There is a significant difference in our legal responsibilities" towards under-18s.
Speaking to The OxStu about the potential impact of such legal requirements on the Oxbridge tutorial system, a Hertford College tutor suggested that academics should be capable of "vetting" their own behaviour, and that successful candidates were precisely those students who appeared sufficiently mature and focused to cope with the demands of the course.
26th Feb 2004